Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So I spend my time hiring people, developing them into a fit on specific deals and also working on other graph levels such as packaging, pricing, how to go international, etc. But we also use new tools such as Intercom to gather intent from inbound leads, or to gather intent from outbound companies that come back to the website.

Feedback Software 162

Feedback Software Marketing User Testing Finance 162

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy.

Outbound 177

Outbound Strategy Inbound Customer Experience 177

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Think of pricing along a continuum with self-service pricing at one end and enterprise at the other” As you scale and evolve your business, there are a few key questions to ask as you determine your pricing strategy: Do you anchor off competitors (if any exist) or substitutes? Enterprise Level ($100,000 +).

Strategy 195

Strategy Customer Experience Inbound User Testing 195

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Sam Mallikarjunan, Head of Growth at HubSpot, a leader in inbound marketing and sales software, explains that teaching the user in this example to create an email campaign isn’t good enough. They’re creating great inbound marketers, with the understanding that it will make them more successful customers.

Education 52

Education User Testing Customer Experience Research Software 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Most users view a product only through the lens of their own use, not through the needs and habits of all the users in their enterprise (which is a view someone at the top, such as a Chief Information Officer, is more likely to have). Is your model primarily inbound or outbound? Richard Harris, Founder, The Harris Consulting Group.

Weak Development Team 156

Weak Development Team Data Visualization Strategy User Testing 156

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. I had done some software consulting. So we said, “Hey, why don’t we do that with enterprise software?”

Analytic Tools 151

Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing Artificial Inteligence 151

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

After college, I went to work at the Boston Consulting Group, BCG, which was my first experience in business. And so I worked with a whole bunch of companies in technology and financial services, consumer goods, helping them on things like growth strategy, developing new products, M&A. It clearly wasn’t taking off.

Feedback Software 209

Feedback Software Research Software Reporting Tools User Testing 209

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

Because of that, I became a good enough salesperson, I managed to keep my job and hit my target and get myself into a sales management role, but most of all what I managed to do was to develop a passionate interest in why some people sale and some don’t, why some sale teams work and some don’t. I say ok, if that’s what you want to do.

Research Software 40

Research Software Feedback Software Magazine Customer Experience 40

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

At Slack, she rose through the ranks from an Account Executive to a Senior Enterprise Leader, and by the time she left Slack six years later, their revenue had grown from about $12 million in ARR to more than a billion dollars. By the time that I actually left Slack, I was senior manager of enterprise. Is it true enterprise?

Weak Development Team 118

Weak Development Team Feedback Software User Testing Customer Experience 118

Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Bill Janeway: The Rise & Fall Of Enterprise Software. Rita Gunter McGrath & Mike Sikorsky: Alarming The Enterprise – Software-Driven Inflection Points. Patrick Campbell: Why a SaaS Pricing Consultancy Gives Away Free Software. Peter Coppinger: From Happy Consultant Developer to Unhappy Product CEO.

Weak Development Team 70

Weak Development Team Data Visualization Customer Feedback User Testing 70

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

They did an amazing job bringing that all the way up to hundreds of millions of users and then their products for the enterprise, like Paper, are all extensions of that core idea. Adam: Shifting focus from your consulting and advisory roles, you spent the better part of three years in-house at Uber.

User Testing 224

User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Customer Feedback 224

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

When you say, “We’re not going to do enterprise sales,” and then a massive company waves a massive number of potential dollars in your face, it’s easy to compromise when you haven’t written that out explicitly. Then we also look at inbound as a separate function. Sometimes it’s hard to stand your ground.

Customer Experience 165

Customer Experience Customer Feedback User Testing Weak Development Team 165

Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

They did an amazing job bringing that all the way up to hundreds of millions of users and then their products for the enterprise, like Paper, are all extensions of that core idea. Adam: Shifting focus from your consulting and advisory roles, you spent the better part of three years in-house at Uber.

User Testing 71

User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization 71

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. So I worked at a company and we were in the enterprise CRM space. So the King of enterprise CRM at the time was this big company called Siebel.

Positioning 108

Positioning Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Research Software 108